Little Yellow Mountain
Little Yellow Mountain rises to 415 m in Virginia. Trayfoot Mountain stands 1,025 m to the north, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Mint Springs Valley Park, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 2.8 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49045709, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 415 m
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Skyline Drive, National
- 7.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 14.3 mi off the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beagle Gap Overlook · 3 mi
- Sawmill Ridge Overlook · 3 mi
- Sawmill Run Overlook · 4 mi
- Calf Mountain Overlook · 4 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Claudius Crozet Park: 2.4 mi
- Beaver Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- North Park: 7.9 mi
- Constitution Park: 8.3 mi
- Crimora Park: 8.4 mi
- Happy's Hill: 0.8 mi
- Beaver Creek Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Bucks Elbow Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Calf Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Middle Mountain: 3.4 mi
- 3 Owl Statue: 9.7 mi
- Bear Statue: 10.0 mi
- Mountain Man: 10.1 mi
- Thomas Jefferson: 12.0 mi
- Moving Forward: 12.2 mi
- Mirador: 3.5 mi
- Sawmill Run Shelter: 3.9 mi
- VDOT Workers' Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Beaver Creek Watershed Project: 4.5 mi
- Rip Rap Shelter: 7.1 mi
- Waynesboro Heritage Museum: 8.5 mi
- Plumb House Museum: 8.8 mi
- Fralin Museum of Art: 12.9 mi
- Grand Caverns Museum and Entrance: 13.7 mi
- Jefferson School African American Heritage Center: 13.8 mi
- Murray Elementary Vegetable Garden: 6.8 mi
- Jane Heyward Garden: 11.2 mi
- Keunen Garden: 12.1 mi
- Courtnay's Garden: 12.1 mi
- The Tahija Arboretum & Lacross Botanical Gardens: 12.2 mi
- Blackrock Springs: 9.0 mi
- Coiner Spring: 10.9 mi
- Tinkling Spring: 13.4 mi
- Laurel Springs Gap: 14.5 mi
- Dripping Rock: 14.6 mi
- Jones Run Falls: 10.5 mi
- Lower Doyles River Falls: 11.3 mi
- Upper Doyles River Falls: 11.4 mi
- Upper Shamokin Falls: 14.6 mi
- White Rock Falls: 21.3 mi
- Mint Springs Valley Park: 0.4 mi
- Heyward Community Forest: 10.5 mi
- Patricia Ann Byrom Forest Preserve Park: 10.9 mi
- Ivy Creek Natural Area: 13.0 mi
- Betsy Bell and Mary Gray Wilderness Parks: 18.0 mi
- Apple Cannon: 9.5 mi
- Endless View Farms: 9.5 mi
- Free Speech Wall: 14.4 mi
- James Monroe's Highland: 16.5 mi
- Gypsy Hill Express Train: 19.7 mi
- Dundo Picnic Grounds and Group Campground: 10.8 mi
- Humpback Rocks Picnic Area: 13.8 mi
- Nelson County Wayside: 16.8 mi
- Greene County Park Pavillion: 21.8 mi
- South River Picnic Area: 24.0 mi
- Lake Monocan Beach: 14.1 mi
- Chris Greene Lake Beach: 17.0 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 5: 24.3 mi
- Lake Monticello Beach 4: 24.9 mi
- Charlottesville Safety Rest Area West: 6.5 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area North: 16.9 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area South: 16.9 mi
- Twenty Minute Cliff: 21.5 mi
- Trinity Point: 24.7 mi
- Canada: 12.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Little Yellow Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trayfoot Mountain | N 355° | 1,025 m | 10.1 mi |
| Cedar Mountain | N 8° | 1,010 m | 9.7 mi |
| Bucks Elbow Mountain | NNW 343° | 964 m | 1.9 mi |
| Blackrock | N 358° | 944 m | 9.8 mi |
| Calf Mountain | W 274° | 908 m | 2.7 mi |
| Pinestand Mountain | N 2° | 906 m | 9.5 mi |
| Turk Mountain | NW 312° | 899 m | 4.9 mi |
| Rocks Mountain | NNW 342° | 896 m | 7.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:02 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:18 | 16:59 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waynesboro WTP, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356563000
Day trips start here
- Charlottesville · 14 mi
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